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Trouble Ahead for Wrongly Criminalized Trafficking Victims June 17, 2018 In a blow to trafficking survivors, the US Department of Justice announced that it will no longer allow funding to be used to help survivors get legal representation to clear criminal records that resulted from their victimization. READ NOW Intel, HP, Apple Top Rankings for Eradicating Forced Labor in Tech June 18, 2018 The three tech companies came out on top of KnowTheChain’s new rankings, while Amazon, Nintendo, and Canon were scored among the worst. READ NOW In a First, 19-Year-Old British Man Granted Protection from Forced Marriage June 20, 2018 This marks the first time the South Yorkshire police have issued a safeguarding order to protect a male victim from honor-based abuse. READ NOW ‘Grooming’ is a Gateway to Online Child Sex Trafficking Anti-trafficking campaigners warn that ‘grooming’ — where children, usually aged 11 to 15, are courted online by people pretending to be their peers — is a precursor to trafficking. Read Now >> UK Home Office Broke the Law in Failing to Protect Trafficked Vietnamese Boy In a landmark ruling, a court found the Home Office breached human rights law by failing to protect a child trafficking victim who went missing after release from immigration detention. Read Now >> Webcam Slavery: The Filipino Families Who Become Cybersex Child Traffickers Campaigners in the Philippines say that the biggest obstacle is the belief among some families that making children appear naked on a webcam is victimless act. Read Now >> World Refugee Day: 122 Detained, Abused Migrants in Libya Evacuated to Niger The move comes as part of UNHCR’s program to evacuate the most vulnerable refugees in Libya — many of whom have been trafficked — to Niger for asylum claim processing. Read Now >> 'White Hat Hackers' Aim to Bust Human Traffickers on the Dark Web ‘White Hat Hackers’ — or hackers working for good — are using their skills to unearth digital evidence of human trafficking on the open and dark web. Read Now >> MORE NEWS